Books: Antarctic

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD— Apsley Cherry-Garrard—Dial ($5).

Nowadays polar explorers have airplanes, radio; reach their goal more quickly, safely, let the world know where they are, what they are doing. But the Poles were not "discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole...

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